BELGRADE PROTESTERS DESTROY PLAQUE FOR SLAIN SERBIAN PM

BELGRADE, March 18 (Hina) - Protesting against the violence against Serbs in Kosovo, a group of people on Thursday took off and destroyed a plaque in honour of slain Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic placed in downtown Belgrade's Republic Square.#L# This act of vandalism was slammed by Serbia-Montenegro Foreign Minister Goran Svilanovic's Civic Alliance of Serbia and the Democratic Party whose president, for many years, was Djindjic. These two parties urged the authorities to prevent "such undemocratic and uncivilised behaviour on the streets of Belgrade" and to punish the perpetrators. There were no clashes during today's protests in downtown Belgrade in which thousands of people took part. After stones were hurled against the Croatian and German embassies, police prevented about 200 high school students from marching on the Albanian embassy. (Hina) ha sb